Praying Mantids
praying mantis site

Disclaimer: I am a non-profit
breeder/keeper of Praying Mantid, Leaf and also Stick insects. I am not a
business! I am not a e-shop! I only exchange my stock. I currently have
some Idolomantis. If you have surplus stock
you may advertise for sale or exchange on my website, please see below. Please note I am in the UK. No insects can be
imported into the USA without a valid permit, for personal collections this is
impossible to obtain.

e-mail

drayg at hotmail.co.uk
(replace at with the correct @symbol and no spaces).

I have Idolomantis
Diabolica nymphs L1/2 for sale, £6 each they are very small and I am selling them without any guarantees,
if purchasing 5 or more I will include a free one for every 5 purchased,
postage is next day special delivery and I will let you know the date of postage. UK
only please:

Very large mantis from East Africa.
Very impressive. This is the true devil mantis, very large. From
L2 nymphs its taken up to 1 year for my females to reach maturity at 25-30C.
A long lived species!

£6 each, L1/2 nymphs

African Flower, No9 flower/

Pseudo creobotra whalbergii

Flower mantis from subtropical east
Africa perhaps one of the most beautiful with petal like projections
adorning body and legs.

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Rose mantis, Violin/

Gongylus gongylodes (several spellings found in literature)

Can be kept communally without any cannibalism.
Grows v-large masters at catching flying insects. From India, dry hot.
(Like being on a sunny window ledge)

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Giant Indian/

Hierodula membranacea

Large bulky and a beautiful shiny green, classic
mantis type, similar to other Hierodula (grandis, trimaculata, parviceps,
tenuidenta) and similar to other bulky classic species like sphrodomantis.
Keep one of these types in culture (your favorite) as they are similar.
V-easy to keep.

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Dead leaf/

Deroplatys Dessicata

A very impressive, large bulky mantis with leafy
extensions on prothorax. Originates from tropical Malaysia.

The most beautiful of mantids, white and pinks
with large projections on legs. An example of extreme sexual
dimorphism females grow v-large males v-small. (easy to keep but hard
to breed). Grow quite large.

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Ghost mantis/

Phylocrania paradoxa

Like out of aliens! medium sized species (6cm)
with lots of camoflage, leafy projections, start off dark when young then
turn from orange/green/yellow

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Shielded mantis/

Rhombodera Basilis

Large aqua marine/blue sheen, shielded prothorax, still uncommon in
culture due to difficulties in success of breeding but very easy to keep.

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Other insects

Jungle nymphs

Heteropteryx dilatata

amazingly large bulky beautiful stick insects

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Giant prickly

Extatosoma tiaratum

amazing large leafy projection on
females. This is a very good genetic stock of this species, eggs are
mixed from non-related adults.

Guava seeds - very easy fast growing plant indoors or out
best food source for most stick insects especially when young. Have
very tasty edible fruit and can be grown outdoors in a sheltered place.

Evergreen for food throughout the year!

Strawberry Guava

(Psidium cattleianum)

Very tasty fruit which can even be grown in temperate
regions

Evergreen for stick insect food throughout the year!

Photos:

Me:
drayg hotmail.co.uk put an @ in the space, I have not to avoid computer spam

Last
updated 29/10/14

Praying mantids / praying mantis are very easy to care for,
clean and amazing to watch, they require little maintenance and a container only
a few times larger than the mantis itself, enough room for moulting to take
place with several sticks for them to hold on to. Small nymphs thrive on
fruit fly's and even medium nymphs feast on them, very small (micro crickets are
also good for small nymphs, large nymphs will eat larger crickets, hoppers curly
fly's and sometimes each other (depends on species). Easy species to keep
include R. Basilis, H. membranacea, P. paradoxa and even H. coronatus (contrary
to popular opinion this species is very easy to keep but harder to breed due to
males maturing very early). G.gongylodes and P.paradoxa can be kept
together in a communal tank even as adults, other species can be kept together
when small if well fed but as large nymphs and adult will cannibalise each
other. Species which must be separated as large nymphs include Hierodula,
sphrodomantis and Rhombodera.